----------------------------------------- The Little Man Computer Instruction Cycle ----------------------------------------- -Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com 1. FETCH: Go to the counter. Read the 2-digit number on the counter. Go to the corresponding mailbox. Fetch from the mailbox a copy of the 3-digit number inside. Remember the 3-digit number. 2. INCREMENT: Go to the counter. Click it once. (Add one to the counter.) 3. EXECUTE: Go to the Wall Chart of Instructions. Look up the 3-digit number from the FETCH step. Do whatever the Wall Chart says to do. Repeat these three steps forever, or until encountering a HALT instruction that puts the Little Man to sleep. -- | Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/